Looking into memory's mirror

In January 2011, a month before he turned 64, Paul Auster began working on Winter Journal, his remarkable meditation on “what it has felt like to live inside this body from the first day you can remember being alive until this one.” Notice his use of the second person? One of the first pleasures of Winter Journal is its feeling of immediacy, as if we are inside Auster’s head...

Posted by Cat on May 16, 2012

Winter Journal by Paul AusterHolt • $26 • ISBN 9780805095531on sale August 21, 2012Thirty years after his breakthrough debut, the memoir The Invention of Solitude,Paul Auster returns to the medium in Winter Journal.With the hindsight of Didion, the narrative elegance of Nabokov and the mesmerizing writing for which he himself is known, Auster (now 65) steps into what he calls "the winter of...